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Kankakee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census , it has a population of 107,502. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Kankakee . [ 2 ]
There was a significant number of French Canadians who moved to the Kankakee, Illinois area from the 1830s through the 1870s, including religious missionaries, establishing communities such as Bourbonnais, St. Anne, St. Georges, Papineau, and L'Erable. [5]
Kankakee (/ ˌ k æ ŋ k ə ˈ k iː / KANG-kə-KEE) [3] is a city in and the county seat of Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. [4] Located on the Kankakee River, as of 2020, the city's population was 24,052. [5] Kankakee is a principal city of the Kankakee-Bourbonnais-Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Shabbona was born around 1775 of the Odawa (Ottawa) tribe either on the Maumee River in Ohio, in Ontario or in a Native American village in Illinois. [2] [4] [5] Shabbona's own biography places his birth on the Kankakee River; "Shaubena, according to his statement, was born in the year 1775 or 1776, at an Indian village on the Kankakee River, now in Will county."
It was located in La Salle County, Illinois [2] in Mission and Miller Townships, with a part of Rutland Township. [3] Opinions differ as to when they first arrived at the Fox River Settlement with some writers fixing 1835 as the year, Knud Langeland claiming it was 1836, and Prof. Rasmus B. Anderson arguing that it was 1834.
The Norwegian Settlers Memorial is the official memorial of the U.S. state of Illinois maintained in honor of immigrants from the nation of Norway. This Memorial commemorates the Fox River Settlement , the site of the first permanent Norwegian-American immigrant settlement in the Midwest .
Lemuel Milk moved to Kankakee, Illinois from New York around 1855. An early settler to the area, Milk was among the first to drain the Kankakee region for farming. By purchasing cheap, swampy land for draining, Milk was able to amass a large estate exceeding 25,000 acres (10,000 ha). This made him one of the largest landowners in Illinois.
Mary K. O'Brien (born 1965), Illinois state legislator and judge, was born in Kankakee. [8] Daniel H. Paddock (1852–1905), Illinois state representative and lawyer, lived in Kankakee. [9] George Ryan (born 1934), 39th governor of Illinois [10] Samuel H. Shapiro (1907–1987), 34th Governor of Illinois, practiced law in Kankakee and died there ...